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Published on: July 1, 2016
Flame atomic absorption spectrometric determination of lead in waste water and effluent after preconcentration using
S Kagaya1, Y Araki, K Hasegawa
1Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Toyama University, Japan.
Abstract:
A determination method for lead in waste water and effluent was studied using flame atomic absorption spectrometry after preconcentration of lead by the rapid coprecipitation technique with gallium phosphate. Lead ranging from 0.5 to 50 microg was quantitatively coprecipitated with gallium phosphate from 100-150 mL sample solution (pH approximately 5). The presence of gallium phosphate did not affect the atomic absorbance of lead. Since the concentration of gallium in the final sample solution is also measurable by flame atomic absorption spectrometry at 250.0 nm without further dilution, the rapid coprecipitation technique, which does not require complete collection of the precipitate, becomes possible using a known amount of gallium and measuring the concentrations of both lead and gallium in the final sample solution by flame atomic absorption spectrometry. The 32 diverse ions tested gave no significant interferences in the lead determination. The method proposed here is rapid and has good reproducibility.
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